One of the many sights inviting visitors to pull off Interstate 10 is Falling Waters State Park, where a stream leaps into a seemingly bottomless pit. Here we are staring into the brink.
The sinkhole is 20-feet wide and 100-feet deep. Geologists have yet to determine where the water disappers off to. For some reason I've not saved a photo of the falls themselves, but I suppose once you've seen some water falling off steep rocks, you've seen it all.The rest of the park is a low-key affair, mainly pine woods threaded with hiking trails...
...and this quiet lake which was mirror-calm first thing that morning.
The pamphlet for the park invites campers to set up tent atop one of Florida's highest hills, a peak of alpine proportions that soars 324 feet into the air. Fearing altitude sickness, we drove on to another geological curiosity, an almost perfectly-round lake which is surrounded by the town of DeFuniak Springs. Want proof?Encircled by Victorian homes plus gleaming churches and civic buildings, the circular lake is a lovely water feature few other towns of this size can match.
The adjacent downtown had many beautiful shopfronts...
...plus some interesting local businesses, including a used bookstore where I loaded up on a few of the trashy sci-fi novels I remembered reading as a teen.Later that day we visited an even more surreal town (Stepford itself personified), the resort of Seaside. But first we had time for a brief detour to Eden Gardens State Park, with its graceful plantation home.
A spot to hitch up your hoop skirts and sit down with a mint julep if there ever was!
Again, this is another low-key park with not much to see or do except stretch your legs on a stroll around the gardens with its views over the bay. By now the sun was beating down, so it was time to hit the beach!
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